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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII: The Earth and Her Inhabitants.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shape did medieval man believe the earth was?
(a) A sphere.
(b) A flat disc.
(c) A hemisphere.
(d) A rhombus.

2. Where is Scipio Minor taken in Somnious Scipionis?
(a) Stellanus.
(b) Stellatum.
(c) Stellan.
(d) Stellarnium.

3. Why was zoology such a studied science?
(a) They were connected to humans.
(b) Animals were worth a lot of money.
(c) They were used to study medicine.
(d) Men depended on animals.

4. Which of these was NOT one of the kinds of souls believed in by medieval man?
(a) Sensitive.
(b) Conscious.
(c) Rational.
(d) Vegetative.

5. Why was it harder for pagans to write about nature?
(a) It was hard to define.
(b) It was not based on religion.
(c) It was not important.
(d) It was all encompassing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Somnious Scipionus mean?

2. Where did medieval man think God dwelled?

3. When was mapping authority denied in Asia?

4. What did Scipio Minor say is insignificant while he is in the sky?

5. What did medieval men think only a wise man could do?

(see the answer key)

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